Chapter 287

"Pfft..."

Jian Lingyu laughed.

Wu Xian was also somewhat speechless; were the things outside this stupid?

Although it had no obvious flaws this time, both "Old Li" and "pulling the door" were flaws that Wu Xian and the others had just pointed out; who would believe it now that they had patched them up?

"Su Xuan... I, I once regretted something, I did one very outrageous wrong thing."

Su Xuan's expression changed slightly.

If the Li Juxian outside the window was the monster in the moonlight, then he shouldn't have said this sentence, which made Su Xuan hesitate internally.

"Maybe the Li Juxian outside is real, and the monster wants to take advantage of our distrust to deliberately let him come over and knock, aiming to make us kill our own people."

Jian Lingyu saw his wavering and immediately shook her head: "Perhaps that's possible, but as long as the moonlight is still there, everything could be fake, so you absolutely cannot open the door."

Just at this moment.

Li Juxian suddenly let out a miserable scream.

"Don't come over, spare me... ah..."

Accompanied by the ear-piercing scream, it suddenly darkened outside the window, and a blood-stained palm slammed onto the window on the door, leaving a bloody palm print on the oil paper.

"Quick... quickly let me in, I'm injured, the moonlight has disappeared, and that monster has also suddenly disappeared, now you should believe me!"

Li Juxian's voice was full of resentment and hatred, which made Su Xuan regret not opening the door just now even more.

Su Xuan and Jian Lingyu's expressions changed drastically; they suddenly realized that their vigilance and suspicion had almost caused their companion to lose his life, so they immediately wanted to open the door.

But the hand that had just reached out was slapped down by Wu Xian.

"Wait a moment, this guy outside is still fake!"

"Fake your grandpa, I, I... *& you!" Li Juxian cursed foully.

Su Xuan was also anxious; judging from that bloody handprint, Li Juxian was losing a lot of blood, and he was truly afraid that this person who seemed to be his friend would just die outside like this.

But Wu Xian firmly pressed on Su Xuan's shoulder, explaining while enduring the ear-piercing curses.

"First, even without my intelligence, after the walking corpses that covered the mountains and plains last night, one should know that it is dangerous under the moonlight; the most rational approach is to hide in an urn or coffin and come out only after the moonlight disappears!"

"But this Li Juxian only came to knock on the door after the moonlight had appeared for a while!"

"And he witnessed the fake Li Juxian knocking on the door; even if he were stupid, he should know that we are on guard against him, and he should have waited until the moonlight ended before coming out. Could it be that in the face of life and death, he can't even wait that long?"

After Su Xuan heard this.

He immediately calmed down.

"Not everyone can make calm and correct judgments when facing danger, but... you are right, he shouldn't be such a stupid person."

Wu Xian continued to explain.

"Regarding the second reason..."

"I once experienced something similar in a previous Fudi, where a malevolent entity used the isolation of moonlight outside the window to use dark arts against us."

"Therefore, I am very concerned about the details when moonlight shines on the window. You must know that our window has damage, and the light from an oil lamp is limited, only able to illuminate a small part of the area, but after the moonlight disappeared, the light inside the room did not change at all from before..."

Su Xuan and Jian Lingyu both had confused expressions.

They could understand the first explanation, but the second one was very hard to grasp.

Wu Xian walked toward the oil lamp: "I'll just demonstrate it to you directly."

Whoosh! The oil lamp was blown out, and the whole room darkened. Su Xuan and the other didn't notice anything at first, but when Su Xuan saw the small tear in the window, the hair on his body stood on end.

It was clearly pitch black outside.

But from the tear in the oil paper on the window, a little moonlight still shone in, which meant the moonlight was still there; the so-called disappearance of the moonlight was just some kind of illusion!

After cursing for a long time, the Li Juxian outside the window seemed unable to hold on anymore and fell to the ground with a painful groan. But Su Xuan and Jian Lingyu had no intention of going out to check, only feeling a chill down their backs.

Even Wu Xian felt a lingering fear in his heart.

If he hadn't been tempered by the 'Candlelight Invisibility Technique', he might not have discovered this trap.

Now that he thought about it carefully, the damage to the windows had actually explained the problem long ago.

Even if the elderly were immobile, they could still paste up the windows, but all the windows in the village had holes of uniform size; these holes might be what the elderly used to protect themselves.

The three people in the room stared at the light shining through the oil paper and waited for another period of time.

Suddenly, with a whoosh... the moonlight shining in finally disappeared.

The three finally breathed a sigh of relief, which meant they were safe for the moment, and then they heard frequent movements outside, as if there were sounds of coffin lids being pushed and urns being opened.

After waiting for a short while, the knocking on the door sounded again.

"I am Du E, and Li Juxian is also beside me. When the moonlight was there just now, neither of us dared to come out. Now that the moonlight is covered, you can let us in."

"If you have any doubts, you can ask anything, ask things that only we know."

Actually, now.

Wu Xian had already determined that it was very safe outside.

But he still held down Su Xuan's hand as he wanted to open the door; one must be extremely cautious when dealing with such matters, and even if there was a ten-fold certainty, one had to test it.

"What color are the safety pants under the skirt of the person dancing on the table?"

Du E answered without hesitation: "They are black."

Wu Xian nodded and continued to ask Du E.

"May I ask, when I usually find you to buy things, what percentage of the profit did you take from me?"

Du E hesitated for a moment.

"We are all friends; after I sold your things, I didn't earn a single cent, I gave it all to you in full, this is a friendship price!"

Wu Xian asserted: "Impossible, you must be fake."

Du E's scalp felt a bit numb: "Fine, I admit it, I took five percent of the profit, that's not excessive at all, right? I helped you..."

"Hmm?"

"Fine, thirty percent..."

Seeing that she had finally become honest, Wu Xian opened the door and let Du E and the other, who had just escaped from the pale ghost shadow, into the house.

After settling down briefly.

The five of them exchanged what they had seen and heard inside and outside the house.

Du E had also encountered the pale ghost shadow in the coffin; the god-worshiping items she brought were more suitable for dealing with this situation, so she quickly dealt with the ghost shadow, but then Du E encountered trouble.

Her body had also shrunk like Wu Xian's.

Originally, she had very little strength and found it difficult to push open the coffin lid by herself; after her body shrank, it was even more strenuous. After finally finding a way to open the coffin, she happened to see the moonlight spilling down and could only wait in the coffin for the moonlight to disappear.

As for Li Juxian...

He was bruised and swollen, and one could tell at a glance that he had been severely beaten by the pale ghost shadow.

Then Wu Xian also told them everything about the three of them's experiences in the room.

Du E pinched her thigh hard, regretting that she had lost the opportunity to obtain rewards due to her weak physique.

Wu Xian smiled and comforted: "Although you didn't get the reward, the intelligence I obtained from Mother Wang can be shared with you."

(End of chapter)